Garment-stay.



W. J. ROCHE.

GARMENT STAY.

APPLICATION FILED JULYZI. 1914.

1L 11N111 l 3,95 3 Patented J an. 30, 1917.

WITNESSES V INVENTOR earns aria rerun.

WILLIAM J. ROCHE, OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE SPIRELLACOMPANY, OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

GARMENT-STAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.-

Patented Jan. 3U, 191?.

Application filed July 21, 1914. Serial No. 852,254.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM J. Roonn, a resident of Meadville, in thecounty of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Garment-Stays, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to garment stays, and particularly to wiregarment stays such as are used for corsets and other like articles ofwearing apparel.

The object of the invention is to provide a wire stay of the characterdescribed which can be readily manufactured, which is simple, which isvery resilient and has material resistance to bending strains, and whichcontains a long length of wire in a stay of given dimensions, so thatthere is no liability of the stay taking a permanent set when subjectedto short bends.

The invention comprises the stay hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, which represent two embodiments of the invention,Figure 1 is a plan View on an exaggerated scale of one face of the stay;and Fig. 2 is a similar view of a modified form of the invention.

The stay shown in the drawings is formed of wire, and preferably isformed of a plurality of wires 1, two being shown, which are bent backand forth alternately from edge to edge of the stay to form a series ofalternately disposed loops or eyes 2 lying along the edges of the stayand a series of transversely extending crossing portions 3. The twowires are intertwined or twisted together so that the crossing portions3 of the two wires cross each other along the middle line of the stay.Also, each crossing portion of the wire, near one edge of the stay, isbent or deflected out of its normal course to form a loop or eye 4 whichmay be of any suitable shape or form and which is shown as a closed loopor eye formed by a complete turn of the wire. The loops or eyes 4: inthe two wires are preferably oppositely disposed, or in other words, arearranged in pairs, so that there are two rows of such loops lyingbetween the edges of the stay and disposed on opposite sides of itscenter line.

which the closed loops or eyes, indicated at 4, are larger and ofsubstantially the same size as the edge loops 2 being formed by coilingthe wire in spiral form at the edges of the stay, the wires forming thetwo oppositely disposed closed loops of a pair being closely adjacent,as at 6, along the median line of the stay. Each crossing portion of thewire may also substantially abut, near one edge of the stay, the nextadjacent closed loop or eye 4 in the other wire, as at 7, which greatlyincreases the resistance of the stay to edgewise bending stresses due tothe inability of the wires to pass each other.

- These closed loops increase the resistance of the stay to bendingstrains, particularly in the edgewise direction, so that the stay isvery resilient and is not liable to take a permanent set on short bends.

What I claim is 1. A garment stay, comprising a plurality of wires, eachof which is bentback and forth from edge to edge of the stay to form aseries of edge loops and transversely ex tending crossing portions, thewires being also bent to form a series of closed loops lying on eachside of the middle line of the stay.

2. A garment stay, comprising a plurality of wires, each of which isbent back and forth from edge to edge of the stay to form a series ofedge loops and transversely extending crossing portions, the wires beingalso bent to form pairs of oppositely dis- ,posed closed loops lying oneach side of the middle line of the stay.

3. A garment stay, comprising a plurality of wires, each of which isbent back and forth from edge to edge of the stay to form a series ofedge loops and transversely extending crossing portions, the wires beingalso bent to form two longitudinally extending rows of closed loopslying on each side of the middle line of the stay, alternate loops ineach row forming parts of different wires.

4:. A garment stay, comprising a plurality of Wires bent back and forthacross the stay In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set to form aseries of edge loops and crossing my hand.

portions, the Wires being also bent interme- WVILLIAM J. ROCHE. diatethe edges of the stay to form it row of Witnesses:

5 closed loops or eyes, alternate loops or eyes FRANK L. ROCHE,

of Which are at different Wires, T. F. CHARLTON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). C.

